Washboard



IRA S. PARKER, OF SHARON, VERMONT.

WASI-IBOARD.

Specification of Letters Patent No.

To aZL whom z' may concern:

Be it known that I, IRA S. PARKER, of Sharon, in the county of Vindsorand State of Vermont, have invtend a new and Improved /Vashboard; and Ido hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1, is aside or face view of my improvement. Fig. 2, is a horizontal section ofditto, (as), (as), Fig. l, showing the plane of section.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the twofigures.

The nature of my invention consists in forming the wash-board of aseries of cylindrical beaded bars arranged as will be presently shownand described.

A, represents the bars which are of cylindrical beaded form. The upperends of the bars A, are inserted in the edge of a-board B, and the lowerends are inserted in the edge of a board C. The beads designated by (o),are of elliptical form and are at equal distances apart on the bars A,leaving suitable spaces (b) between them. The bars A, turned out of woodand are of a suitable length and thickness, the beads (a), being ratherlarger inv diameter than the thickness of the boards B, C, as shown inFig. 2. Any proper number of bars A, may be used and the beads (a), whenthe ends of the bars are secured in the edges of the boards B, C, are

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side by side in horizontal rows thereby leaving spaces (e), between thebeads and bars. The beads (a), form the necessary corrugations overwhich the clothes are rubbed in the usual way, the wash-board beingplaced in the tub as usual.

The wash-board thus constructed may be used on either side and the wateris not scattered around during the process of rubbing the clothes, as itpasses through the spaces (c), into the tub. rlhe clothes also inconsequence of the beads (a), are rubbed over the ends of the grain ofthe wood and the clothes are thereby subjected to more friction than theordinary corrugated boards, the flutes o-r corrugations of which runlengthwise of the grain of the wood.

The invention is simple, durable, economical to manufacture, and farpreferable to the ordinary wash-boards in use.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

Constructing the wash-board of a series of cylindrical beaded bars A,the ends of which are secured in boards B, C, the beads (a), of the barsbeing side by side in horizontal rows so as to leave spaces (c), betweenthem, substantially as shown and described.

IRA S. PARKER. Witnesses PELATIAH METCALF, MosEs PRESTON.

